INSIDE INFORMATION II
Credit: GAMES Magazine
February, 2001

If you put a CAULDRON inside a PIG'S HOME you get COVERED WITH DOTS. How?  A cauldron is a POT and a pig's home is a STY. If you put POT in STY, you get SPOTTY (sPOTty), which means covered with dots. Can you solve the rest of these riddles with a one-word answer?

1. Put EVERYONE inside a SWEEPER to get a DANCE HALL.
2. Put an ancient BOAT inside a NEW YORK TEAM to get FOOD STORES
3. Put PETROLEUM inside ZOOMED to get BRATTY.
4. Put IRE inside a PRONG to get a FRUIT.
5. Put DECAY inside NUISANCE to get COMPLAIN.
6. Put a FRUIT inside MIMICKED to get SEEMED
7. Put an embarrassing DEFEAT inside SCAM to get a SALAD GARNISH.

Answers:

1. BALLROOM (all/broom)
2. MARKETS (ark/Mets)
3. SPOILED (oil/sped)
4. TANGERINE (anger/tine) 
5. PROTEST (rot/pest)
6. APPEARED (pear/aped)
7. CROUTON (rout/con)